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Longhope railway station is a disused stone-built railway station that served the village of Longhope in Gloucestershire, England. Opened in 1855 with the line, it was located on the Great Western Railway line linking Ross-on-Wye and Gloucester. Longhope station was used in season to export locally produced jam and fruit.
Longhope Lifeboat Station is the base for Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) search and rescue operations at Longhope on the island of South Walls, in Orkney, Scotland. It opened in 1874 and since 2004 has operated a Tamar-class lifeboat .
Longhope station was used in season to export locally produced jam and fruit grown locally. The station had a passing loop [4] on what was a single track. The station has been demolished but the waiting room still remains. A cameo description of life in Longhope before World War I is given in a memoir by Arthur Bullock.
The boat served from January 1933 - April 1962 at Longhope Lifeboat Station. During this time it was launched 101 times and saved 308 lives. From 1962 - 1972 it was a reserve-boat and has 8 launches with 7 savings during this time. In August 1972 the boat was sold and returned later to Longhope for display.
An RNLI lifeboat has been stationed at Longhope since 1874; the old lifeboat house is now a museum with a former Longhope lifeboat Thomas McCunn on display. On 17 March 1969 the station suffered one of the worst tragedies in British lifeboat history when its 47-ft wooden lifeboat, T.G.B., capsized with the loss of all eight crew after answering a mayday call from the Liberian cargo vessel ...
In 1999, the lifeboat station closed and was replaced with a new station in the village of Longhope, on the adjacent island of South Walls, connected to Hoy by a causeway. The Longhope Lifeboat Museum Trust was established in 2000 by the local community of Hoy and South Walls, with the goal of establishing a museum dedicated to the history of ...
This station is now the home of the Longhope Lifeboat Museum, which has on display lifeboat Thomas McCunn, stationed here from 1933 to 1962. [21] In 2000 an Arun-class lifeboat, Sir Max Aitken II became the Longhope lifeboat. This class was designed to stay permanently afloat, and the decision was taken to move her to purpose-built moorings at ...
The Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway was a railway which ran for 22 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (36.2 km) linking Hereford and Gloucester, England, via Ross-on-Wye.It was opened on 1 June 1855 as a 7 ft 1 ⁄ 4 in (2,140 mm) broad gauge line, it was amalgamated with the Great Western Railway in 1862.